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Airport utility 5.6 yosemite12/18/2023 ![]() You can buy a Raspberry Pi and SD card and set them up to do the same thing, but it's going to take a lot of effort and time to initially set up (and you better be familiar with Linux or willing to learn!), or you can buy an outdated AirPort Express for a fraction of the price, set it up, and play music through it. This is the device that introduced AirTunes (which became AirPlay when it was expanded to the Apple TV and video support was added), and it remains very useful as a digital audio streaming target. IPhones and iPod touch devices, as well as Mac computers, or iTunes on a Windows PC can all stream audio to Apple AirPlay- and AirTunes-certified devices. However, this thing is extremely useful for one purpose: wireless music streaming from an Apple device. This product is outdated at this point, and the wireless router/cable modem combination I get from Time Warner Cable is much more capable than this thing is. ![]() This is the cheapest way to stream music from an iPhone or iPod, but it's a bit of a pain to configure at first. Bit perfect from the CD ripping to the butt-end of the DSP.Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Monaco, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Reunion, Romania, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam My quality system has all my music ripped and accessed by a FileMaker DB, then USB to AES (AKA SPDIF/coax, using a high-quality converter named Breeze) to DSP unit (inside Behringer DCS2496). ![]() And contrary to views held widely by audiophiles, I don't hear degradation in any ADC or DAC I own (and that includes some real old and cheap USB DAC stuff) and that includes the DAC inside the AE that I'm using now and based on measurements too. I don't have any TOSLink links in any of my systems. So I can't run my cherished FR and distortion tests or at least not the neat REW sweeps. Just discovered something terrible: no way to run REW through AE (due to the streaming delay). 35 feet through several walls might exceed AE limits on a bad night. Seems pretty good although not auditioning through first-rate speakers. That AE is now running in my winter get-away, set 35 feet from laptop, using the DAC audio output on the AE. Yes, bought one a few years old on Kijiji (buying second-hand is one of my weaknesses).
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